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As long as President Obama is in office and Republicans control Congress, the nation will remain in an era of divided government. Given our system of checks and balances, true negotiation must take place and real compromise must be reached to govern effectively. And like I’ve said on numerous occasions, neither side can ever get all that it wants in a negotiation. In fact, in a true negotiation you’ll always get less than you want and give up more than you’d like.

The Oklahoman - Chris Casteel

Along with the Wisconsin family cheering Paul Ryan's ascension to speaker of the House on Thursday was an Oklahoma contingent, including Ryan's father-in-law and former U.S. Rep. Dan Boren.

Ryan, a Republican who became the youngest speaker since 1869, married into an Oklahoma family in 2000 and has become a regular visitor to Marshall County and the state's best hunting and fishing areas.

Wall Street Journal - John McKinnon

Paul Ryan is a small-government conservative who hopes to use innovative policy solutions to make the GOP a big-tent party again.

Washington Times - Stephen Dinan

Neither do nearly 200 members of the House of Representatives, who came to Congress in 2011 or later and have never served a day when they could slip pork-barrel projects into bills, siphoning taxpayers’ money to well-connected constituents back home in exchange for supporting bloated bills in Washington.

Washington Post - Kelsey Snell

Congressional leaders worked late into the night on Tuesday to resolve last-minute issues with the bipartisan budget agreement reached between Congressional leaders and the White House, paving the way for the House to vote as early as Wednesday on the legislation.